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Quis custodiet (ipsos custodes)2? Oh, it’s me. Right.

I’ve just arrived home, having spent a pleasant evening in the company of Messrs Canon L. Printer and Henry The Depressed Fern. Printers, as any fule kno, were put on this Earth to test us, and to separate the merely persistent from those prepared to spend three solid hours making the requisite sacrifices of dead Continue reading →

Retarded Reviews: Indiana Jones and the Boring MacGuffin

Warning: I’m going to spoil the shit out of this movie. This is actually going to be tricky because it has no discernable plot, although there is plentiful shit. Don’t worry, you’ll thank me for it later. The Writers’ Guild of America strike last year obviously hit Universal Studios hard, as they decided to dig Continue reading →

Solidarity

Retarded Reviews: The Prince Albert, Camden

Today I branch into reviewing London social establishments, my ire having been roused by the Prince Albert, an alleged gastropub located slightly off the beaten Camden track. I went with high expectations, and had them all expertly crushed. Service was disinterested verging on insolent (“Hi, do you know what time the live music starts?” “No Continue reading →

Birdspotting – a Bluffer’s Guide

Last summer the Coffey family (UK division, plus temporary assignees from New Zealand) spent three weeks tramping around bits of northern and western Scotland. A great deal of this time was spent standing on assorted promontories, peering at the adjacent cliffs and trying to identify exactly which bits of the local fauna we were currently Continue reading →